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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's last budget before an expected spring election gives strong support to a proposed tax break for energy companies to fulfil their legal cleanup duties but doesn't tell voters how much would be spent on it.
The program is listed as Alberta Energy's second priority. It commits the department to"collaborate with other ministries ... to maintain and strengthen a balanced, responsible approach to managing the impacts of resource development activities, including the ongoing implementation of liability management activities."
"You're not seeing an Alberta Pension Plan in this budget and you're not seeing a definitive Alberta Police Force in this budget and you're not seeing an RStar program in this budget because none of those policies have been approved," he said Tuesday."We are reaching out on all of those things and consulting with Albertans."
Smith, who pushed RStar as a business lobbyist before taking over as party leader, boosted it again Saturday on her radio phone-in program. On that show, Smith even mused about extending a similar program to cover municipal environmental liabilities in Medicine Hat, Calmar and Calgary.A $100-million pilot program has been proposed through Alberta Energy and meetings held with stakeholders. The department now says any decision won't come until the fall, months after Albertans vote.
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